Who Does What in Your Law Firm?

Who does what in your law firm? There are many different roles in law firms, and I think most people conceptually understand the distinction between a lawyer and a paralegal and a legal assistant and a file clerk.   There are three categories of behavior required in every law firm, finders, minders and grinders. I’m sure you’ve heard of these before, but I wanted to give a perceptual frame for them that might be a little different than what you've heard before.   It’s so important as a solo law firm owner that you divorce yourself from at least some of these roles.   Tune in to learn how! In this episode we discuss: The roles in a law firm and the three categories that you require, being Grinders, Minders and Finders. Recognizing the characteristics from each category. How solo law firm owners also require some degree of compliance for themselves. The importance of creating enterprise goodwill that will carry your business forward. Being a solo lawyer and its challenges. Considering the time you are spending in each of these categories.   Allison Bio:   Allison C. Williams, Esq., is Founder and Owner of the Williams Law Group, LLC, with offices in Short Hills and Freehold, New Jersey. She is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, is Certified by the Supreme Court of New Jersey as a Matrimonial Law Attorney and is the first attorney in New Jersey to become Board-Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy in the field of Family Law.    Ms. Williams is an accomplished businesswoman. In 2017, the Williams Law Group won the LawFirm500 award, ranking 14th of the fastest growing law firms in the nation, as Ms. Williams grew the firm 581% in three years. Ms. Williams won the Silver Stevie Award for Female Entrepreneur of the Year in 2017.  In 2018, Ms. Williams was voted as NJBIZ’s Top 50 Women in Business and was designated one of the Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. In 2019, Ms. Williams won the Seminole 100 Award for founding one of the fastest growing companies among graduates of Florida State University.   In 2018, Ms. Williams created Law Firm Mentor, a business coaching service for lawyers.  She helps solo and small law firm attorneys grow their business revenues, crush chaos in business and make more money.  Through multi-day intensive business retreats, group and one-to-one coaching, and strategic planning sessions, Ms. Williams advises lawyers on all aspects of creating, sustaining and scaling a law firm business – and specifically, she teaches them the core foundational principles of marketing, sales, personnel management, communications and money management in law firms.  Contact Info:   MasterClass December 8th Text CONNECT at 908 292 3524 https://lawfirmmentor.net/speak-with-a-growth-strategist/   Contact Law Firm Mentor: Scheduler: https://meetme.so/LawFirmMentor     Snippets   00: 19: 02 (38 Seconds)  So I remember I recently had a conversation. Very good friend of mine decided that she was going to phase out of practicing law in the way that she is. She doesn't, she no longer has her law firm open, and we had a lot of conversations about what she wanted to do with it. Did she want to sell it? Did you just want to close it? Like, what? What is the process? And so just kind of being alongside her as she was going through that process, I learned a lot about valuation of law firms. Now, as a matrimonial attorney and family law attorney for many years, I of course knew about valuations of businesses and periodically we would have a client who owned a law firm.